A PAIR OF GEORGE II MAHOGANY SERPENTINE COMMODES

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Lot 631 | A PAIR OF GEORGE II MAHOGANY SERPENTINE COMMODES
A PAIR OF GEORGE II MAHOGANY SERPENTINE COMMODES

CIRCA 1755

Each top with gadrooned edge above three graduated drawers mounted with foliate rococo gilt-lacquered brass handles and escutcheons, the stands of conforming shape, the waved rails carved with trellis ground centered on three sides by addorsed C-scrolls and acanthus centered by cabochons, on cabriole legs headed by half-florettes, scrolls and acanthus on hairy-paw feet, the top drawer of one inscribed in pencil 'T.S. 30 Augt. 1796', one with batten carrying-holes, printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label

31 1/4 in. (79.5 cm.) wide, 20 in. (51 cm.) deep, 32 in. (81 cm.) high





Provenance

The Collection of E.B. Moller, Esq.

Acquired privately from him (Somers Trading Co. Ltd.) through R.W. Symonds, 8 July 1958, for #6250 (the invoice endorsed by R.W. Symonds) by Samuel Messer.

The Samuel Messer Collection of English Furniture, Clocks and Barometers; Christie's, London, 5 December 1991, lot 104.

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.





Literature

R.W. Symonds, Furniture Making in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England, London, 1955, pp. 108 and 109, figs. 162 and 163.



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